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Re: [Help-bash] How to configure 'b' and 'e' vi mode to ignore '.'?


From: Greg Wooledge
Subject: Re: [Help-bash] How to configure 'b' and 'e' vi mode to ignore '.'?
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 11:11:51 -0500
User-agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i

On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 10:02:22AM -0600, Peng Yu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> By default, 'b' and 'e' stop at '.' in vi mode. I think that there
> should be a way to configure 'b' and 'e' stop only at white space but
> not '.'. But I'm not able to find it in the document. Could anybody
> let me know how to set it? Thanks!

Without any configuration changes, 'B' and 'E' (holding Shift) will jump
to the start/end of words as delimited by whitespace only.



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